Re: Call Me Gitless

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Jeff King wrote:
Ah, okay. I feel like the main application for this is "I typed some git 
diff command, started looking at it, my phone rang, I took the call, and 
now I don't know what I'm looking at, and the pager hides the command 
line, but quitting the pager loses my place." At least, that's the 
situation I'm often in.

Press ctrl-z. ;-)

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Yeah, that's why I think that format-patch should work on content that you 
haven't committed, generating something you can dump right into an email 
(with the --- and diffstat that you'd get if you actually did commit and 
use format-patch now).

Hmm, and why don't you actually do the commit after all? You can compose
all the details within the commit and you can do the commit on a
separate branch or git reset HEAD^ afterwards if you don't want to keep
it around.

I personally almost always do something like:

$ git checkout -b informational-diff-prefixes
$ git commit -a
$ git show HEAD > temp.patch
$ git checkout master

But then I tend to use "checkout -b; commit -a; checkout" instead of 
"reset --hard" to get rid of unwanted local changes anyway these days.

	-Daniel
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